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~ Wesleyan Argus
Published weekly in the interest of the Illinois Wesleyan University and its students.
VOL. XIII. No. 24 BLOOMINGTON, ILL., FRIDAY, JUNE 7. 1907. PRIe FIVE CENTS
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM S.R. GORDON'S TRAGIC DEATH RECENT BASEBALL SCORES
This Year Expected to Make an Epoch Former Wesleyan Student Meets Death One of the Most Successful Seasons of
in the History of
the School.
LIST OF EVENTS FOR THE WEEK
Theprogram for commencement week
has been issued and is the equal of that
of any former commencement. The
commencement this year will mark an
epoch in the history of the school as the
money necessary to meet the Carnegie
gift will no doubt be raised by that time.
There will also be one of the largest
gatheringsof alumni and former students
that has taken place in former years.
The program for the week is as follows:
SUNDAY, JUNE 9.
10:30 a. m.-Baccalaureate sermon,
President Frank G. Barnes.
7:30 p. m,-Address before the Chris-tian
associations.
TUESDAY, JUNE 11.
2:00 p. m.-Meeting of the joint board
of trustees and visitors.
2:30 p. m.-n-Exercises of the school of
oratory.
8:00 p. m.-Public program of the
college of law.
WEDNESDAy, JUNE 12.
9:30 a. m.-Class day exercises. Sen-ior
class of the college of letters.
2:30 p. m.-Exercises of the college
of music
8:00 p. m.-Academy graduation ex-ercises.
THURSDAY, JUNE 13.
9:00 a. m.-Field day exercises, fac-ulty-
senior base ball game.
7:00 p. m.-Business meeting of the
Alumni association at the university.
8:00 p. m.-Alumni reception and
program at the university.
FRIDAY, JUNE 14.
1:30 p. m.-Academic procession.
Commencement address - Governor
Charles S. Deneen.
Conferring of degrees.
p4:30 p. m.--Ball game, university
team.
FACULTY-SENIOR BALL GAME.
Mr. A. B. Wright, in behalf of the
senior class has challenged the faculty
to a base ball game to be played on
Thursday of this week. Dr. Graham, in
behalfof the faculty, accepted the chal-lenge
and informed the seniors that they
Smight expect a difficult task for the
faculty had been practicing for about a
month. This will undoubtedly be a great
game and a very interesting one.
Miss Inez English left Friday after-noon
for West Virginia, where she will
spend the summer.
Seniors Excused From Exams.
The seniors were excused from their
final examinations. The faculty gave
a their reason for excusing them that
: they never could pass if they took them
.and hence would iotgraduate. It is a
,working principle among all faculties
thabt their respective institutions must
have a graduating class.
By His Own Hand at
Piper City.
Recent Years Drawing
to a Close.
ILL HEALTH THOUGHT TO BE CAUSE HAVE WON MAJORITY OF THE GAMES
Wesleyan students were struck dumb
last week when word came that S. R.
Gordon, a student last year had taken
his own life. So strong, so bright, so
manly, he was one of the last persons in
the world of whom such an act could be
thought possible. Yet the sad message
was only too true.
Mr. Gordon did not return to school
this year because of ill health and for
the same reason took a trip to California
last fall, returning the latter part of
March. He was suffering somewhat
with lung trouble, the exact extent and
nature of which is unknown, but over
which he at times worried considerably.
It is supposed by his friends that long
continued concern for his health might
have temporarily unbalanced him and
been the cause for his rash act.
Mr. Gordon left home Friday morning
presumably to go to Peoria, but went
from there to Piper City, where he called
upon his friend, Miss Heller, that even-ing.
He spent a pleasant and enjoyable
evening and seemed to be in his usual
cheerful spirit, leaving about 11:30.
His dead body was found the next morn.
ing in the cab-house of Mr. Jennings on
the opposite side of the city. Near him
lay a bottle containing a small amount
of potassium cyanide and a thirty-eight
caliber revolver with which he had shot
himself in the temple.
The funeral was held in the Methodist
church at Dunhp and the sermon vas
preached by his former pastor. Rev.
Leach of Pekin. A sadder funeral is
seldom witnessed. The sorrow occasioned
by his tragic death is universal and his
bereaved family has the sympathy of
all. Of his immediate family he leaves
to mourn his early departure his paaents
and three sisters.
Mr. Gordon spent five years in the
Wesleyan, the last three in the college
and would have graduated this year. As
a student he was brilliant, painstaking,
and thorough and had won the hearts
of his instructors and esteem and con-fidence
of all. Throughout his course
he was frequently honored by the stu-dents.
He was two years president of
his class, president of the Munsellian
literary society, a member of the track
team, president of the Y. M. C. A. at the
time he left school, and a member of
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
Tuesday evening of last week, the
Munsellians elected the following officers
for the fall term of 1907:
President, Mr. Gilbert Holt; vice-president,
Mr. Fred Grant; secretary,
Miss Grace Wells; treasurer, Mr. Wesley
Marden; sergeant-at-arms, Miss Florence
Maxey; chaplain, Mr. V. Baksh; execu-tive
committee, Miss Zola Green, Mr.
Peine and Mr. Leonard Jeffers.
Seniors are having trouble getting
their invitations.
Wesleyan, 2; Monmouth, 0; Crewes
and Gardner, McMillan and Nash.
Wesleyan, 0; Knox, 4; Spaid and
Gardner, Bacon and Hilling.
Wesleyan, 3; Bradley, 8; Spaid and
Gardner, Bennitt and Lidle.
Wesleyan, 6; Normal, 6; Thompson
and Spaid, Sill and Moon.
Wesleyan - Monmouth game post-poned.
Wesleyan, 3; Knox, 1; Spaid and
Gardner, Grant and Hedding.
Wesleyan, 4; Millikin, 1; Spaid and
Gardner, Moeller and Guerin.
In all, Wesleyan has won nine and
lost three games this season and has
just terminated the most successful sea-son
in her baseball career. Crippled
always with a changing infield Coach
Wills' proteges have won many ball
games this year by clever baseball and
inside playing. The hitting has been
woefully weak, Spaid and Williams be-ing
the only consistent hitters. Field-ing
has been but mediocre, yet the team
has won many games.
Such success must be attributed to
the splendid pitching of M. Spaid and
the base running of the entire team.
Time and again the team has won when
outbatted strongly.
In the Monmouth game Crewes out-pitched
and out-generaled McMillan,
winning by a count of 2 to 0. The lat-ter
was touched when hits meant runs,
while the southpaw was invincible with
men on bases. Denton scored in the
first and Gardner drove Williams home
in the ninth for the two runs of the
game. Crewes struck out fifteen and
allowed but three hits.
The score:
Wesleyan..1-O 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-2-4-1
Monm'th...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0--3-2
KNOX WINS.
Incompetent indicator work is re-sponsible
for the second defeat of the
season, as Wesleyan outhit and out-played
Knox.
The score:
Knox .. 11 100 0 00 1 0--4-5-4
Wesleyan..O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0-8--2
Spaid and Gardner, Bacon and Hed-cling.
At Bradley Spaid was in poor form
and retired after the third, after five
runs were secured from his delivery.
Gardner took up the burden and allowed
but one hit. The Bradley team is one
of the weakest on the circuit and an
easy victory is expected on the return
game.
Normal was beaten again Tuesday
afternoon by a score of 9 to 6. Eggo-see
Thompson twirled his first game in
fast company and although hard hit he
nianaged to hold the near-school teach-ets
safe. M. Spaid turned his ankle
and Gardner played second. Most of
weakest hitters strepgthened their av-erages.
Wesleyan.00 0 0 5 4 0 0 0-9-10-4
Normal...0 0 0 0 03 0 0 3-6- 9-6
In the best ball game of the season
Wesleyan downed her old rival, Knox,
by a count of 3 to 1 Friday, M. Spaid,
demonstrated to the satisfaction of all
that he has the goods, and by his great
pitching, pulled out a hard fought game.
The game was won in the eigth, Row-land
& Williams hit and came home,
Richardson error, a magnificient triple
by Spaid, backed these runs up. The
big pitcher had on his swatting clothes
getting a double and a triple, young
Spaid on second on second distinguish-ed
himself by keeping his suit clean for
the length of the game. The feature
was a catch by Essich and a stop by
Richardson.
Wesleyan.10000002- 3-5--3
Knox..... 0 0 01 0 000 1--5 4
Spaid went back in the box Monday
and trimmed the Millikins to the tune
of i to 1. But for Moellers pads and
steal in the first the heavy boy would
have shut them out. His support was
not of the best, five errors being made
in the infield. Wesleyan scored on
Denton's drive and steal and Mr. Spaid's
two bagger in the first and in the fifth
annexed three on Crewes hit, Straight's
bunt and Doolittle's fielder choice aided
by three wild throws and two pitiful
cushions. D. Spaid made a pretty one
handed stop that will furnish him mer-riment
for the summer. The game was
a dopy affair and played in a drizzling
rain. Moeller, Millikin's captain failed
to connect safely and struck out twice
with men on bases.
Wesleyan.1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 - 4-3-5
Milliken's.O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-3-5
Spaid and Gardner, Moeller and Guerin.
Literary Society for Law School.
Working quietly and unbeknown to
the rest of the institution, a number of
the students in the law department have
organized and are successfully carrying
on a literary society. Realization of the
need of something of this sort is not a
recent development; societies have been
organized before. The permanent orga-nization
of such a society, however, is a
new condition of affairs.
Knowledge gained from the wreck of
these former organizations has caused
the boys to thoroughly test the possibility
of the existence of such a society, by
"getting busy" right now, in the spring
of the year, when as a general thing
students are prone to direct their interest
and enthusiasm in other directions.
Judging from the character of the pro-grams
and the enthusiasm shown, the
test has proven satisfactory.
The object of the society is, as he
preamble to the constitution states,
"improvement in the art of all forms of
public-speaking, and the practice of par-liamentary
laws."
We hope that the plans which the
boys have for next year may be fully
developed, so that the society may be-come
one of the permanent features of
the school, thereby giving the law stu-dents
a better chance to develop their
abilities in this line.
The present officers of the society are
Mr. Eaton, president, Mr. Simpson,y ice
president, Mr. Yoder, secretary.
The law ex's were over Friday.
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iI: b:z'r: A F3_ L i
~I-"- ,.
I -*;; s
~ Wesleyan Argus
Published weekly in the interest of the Illinois Wesleyan University and its students.
VOL. XIII. No. 24 BLOOMINGTON, ILL., FRIDAY, JUNE 7. 1907. PRIe FIVE CENTS
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM S.R. GORDON'S TRAGIC DEATH RECENT BASEBALL SCORES
This Year Expected to Make an Epoch Former Wesleyan Student Meets Death One of the Most Successful Seasons of
in the History of
the School.
LIST OF EVENTS FOR THE WEEK
Theprogram for commencement week
has been issued and is the equal of that
of any former commencement. The
commencement this year will mark an
epoch in the history of the school as the
money necessary to meet the Carnegie
gift will no doubt be raised by that time.
There will also be one of the largest
gatheringsof alumni and former students
that has taken place in former years.
The program for the week is as follows:
SUNDAY, JUNE 9.
10:30 a. m.-Baccalaureate sermon,
President Frank G. Barnes.
7:30 p. m,-Address before the Chris-tian
associations.
TUESDAY, JUNE 11.
2:00 p. m.-Meeting of the joint board
of trustees and visitors.
2:30 p. m.-n-Exercises of the school of
oratory.
8:00 p. m.-Public program of the
college of law.
WEDNESDAy, JUNE 12.
9:30 a. m.-Class day exercises. Sen-ior
class of the college of letters.
2:30 p. m.-Exercises of the college
of music
8:00 p. m.-Academy graduation ex-ercises.
THURSDAY, JUNE 13.
9:00 a. m.-Field day exercises, fac-ulty-
senior base ball game.
7:00 p. m.-Business meeting of the
Alumni association at the university.
8:00 p. m.-Alumni reception and
program at the university.
FRIDAY, JUNE 14.
1:30 p. m.-Academic procession.
Commencement address - Governor
Charles S. Deneen.
Conferring of degrees.
p4:30 p. m.--Ball game, university
team.
FACULTY-SENIOR BALL GAME.
Mr. A. B. Wright, in behalf of the
senior class has challenged the faculty
to a base ball game to be played on
Thursday of this week. Dr. Graham, in
behalfof the faculty, accepted the chal-lenge
and informed the seniors that they
Smight expect a difficult task for the
faculty had been practicing for about a
month. This will undoubtedly be a great
game and a very interesting one.
Miss Inez English left Friday after-noon
for West Virginia, where she will
spend the summer.
Seniors Excused From Exams.
The seniors were excused from their
final examinations. The faculty gave
a their reason for excusing them that
: they never could pass if they took them
.and hence would iotgraduate. It is a
,working principle among all faculties
thabt their respective institutions must
have a graduating class.
By His Own Hand at
Piper City.
Recent Years Drawing
to a Close.
ILL HEALTH THOUGHT TO BE CAUSE HAVE WON MAJORITY OF THE GAMES
Wesleyan students were struck dumb
last week when word came that S. R.
Gordon, a student last year had taken
his own life. So strong, so bright, so
manly, he was one of the last persons in
the world of whom such an act could be
thought possible. Yet the sad message
was only too true.
Mr. Gordon did not return to school
this year because of ill health and for
the same reason took a trip to California
last fall, returning the latter part of
March. He was suffering somewhat
with lung trouble, the exact extent and
nature of which is unknown, but over
which he at times worried considerably.
It is supposed by his friends that long
continued concern for his health might
have temporarily unbalanced him and
been the cause for his rash act.
Mr. Gordon left home Friday morning
presumably to go to Peoria, but went
from there to Piper City, where he called
upon his friend, Miss Heller, that even-ing.
He spent a pleasant and enjoyable
evening and seemed to be in his usual
cheerful spirit, leaving about 11:30.
His dead body was found the next morn.
ing in the cab-house of Mr. Jennings on
the opposite side of the city. Near him
lay a bottle containing a small amount
of potassium cyanide and a thirty-eight
caliber revolver with which he had shot
himself in the temple.
The funeral was held in the Methodist
church at Dunhp and the sermon vas
preached by his former pastor. Rev.
Leach of Pekin. A sadder funeral is
seldom witnessed. The sorrow occasioned
by his tragic death is universal and his
bereaved family has the sympathy of
all. Of his immediate family he leaves
to mourn his early departure his paaents
and three sisters.
Mr. Gordon spent five years in the
Wesleyan, the last three in the college
and would have graduated this year. As
a student he was brilliant, painstaking,
and thorough and had won the hearts
of his instructors and esteem and con-fidence
of all. Throughout his course
he was frequently honored by the stu-dents.
He was two years president of
his class, president of the Munsellian
literary society, a member of the track
team, president of the Y. M. C. A. at the
time he left school, and a member of
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
Tuesday evening of last week, the
Munsellians elected the following officers
for the fall term of 1907:
President, Mr. Gilbert Holt; vice-president,
Mr. Fred Grant; secretary,
Miss Grace Wells; treasurer, Mr. Wesley
Marden; sergeant-at-arms, Miss Florence
Maxey; chaplain, Mr. V. Baksh; execu-tive
committee, Miss Zola Green, Mr.
Peine and Mr. Leonard Jeffers.
Seniors are having trouble getting
their invitations.
Wesleyan, 2; Monmouth, 0; Crewes
and Gardner, McMillan and Nash.
Wesleyan, 0; Knox, 4; Spaid and
Gardner, Bacon and Hilling.
Wesleyan, 3; Bradley, 8; Spaid and
Gardner, Bennitt and Lidle.
Wesleyan, 6; Normal, 6; Thompson
and Spaid, Sill and Moon.
Wesleyan - Monmouth game post-poned.
Wesleyan, 3; Knox, 1; Spaid and
Gardner, Grant and Hedding.
Wesleyan, 4; Millikin, 1; Spaid and
Gardner, Moeller and Guerin.
In all, Wesleyan has won nine and
lost three games this season and has
just terminated the most successful sea-son
in her baseball career. Crippled
always with a changing infield Coach
Wills' proteges have won many ball
games this year by clever baseball and
inside playing. The hitting has been
woefully weak, Spaid and Williams be-ing
the only consistent hitters. Field-ing
has been but mediocre, yet the team
has won many games.
Such success must be attributed to
the splendid pitching of M. Spaid and
the base running of the entire team.
Time and again the team has won when
outbatted strongly.
In the Monmouth game Crewes out-pitched
and out-generaled McMillan,
winning by a count of 2 to 0. The lat-ter
was touched when hits meant runs,
while the southpaw was invincible with
men on bases. Denton scored in the
first and Gardner drove Williams home
in the ninth for the two runs of the
game. Crewes struck out fifteen and
allowed but three hits.
The score:
Wesleyan..1-O 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-2-4-1
Monm'th...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0--3-2
KNOX WINS.
Incompetent indicator work is re-sponsible
for the second defeat of the
season, as Wesleyan outhit and out-played
Knox.
The score:
Knox .. 11 100 0 00 1 0--4-5-4
Wesleyan..O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0-8--2
Spaid and Gardner, Bacon and Hed-cling.
At Bradley Spaid was in poor form
and retired after the third, after five
runs were secured from his delivery.
Gardner took up the burden and allowed
but one hit. The Bradley team is one
of the weakest on the circuit and an
easy victory is expected on the return
game.
Normal was beaten again Tuesday
afternoon by a score of 9 to 6. Eggo-see
Thompson twirled his first game in
fast company and although hard hit he
nianaged to hold the near-school teach-ets
safe. M. Spaid turned his ankle
and Gardner played second. Most of
weakest hitters strepgthened their av-erages.
Wesleyan.00 0 0 5 4 0 0 0-9-10-4
Normal...0 0 0 0 03 0 0 3-6- 9-6
In the best ball game of the season
Wesleyan downed her old rival, Knox,
by a count of 3 to 1 Friday, M. Spaid,
demonstrated to the satisfaction of all
that he has the goods, and by his great
pitching, pulled out a hard fought game.
The game was won in the eigth, Row-land
& Williams hit and came home,
Richardson error, a magnificient triple
by Spaid, backed these runs up. The
big pitcher had on his swatting clothes
getting a double and a triple, young
Spaid on second on second distinguish-ed
himself by keeping his suit clean for
the length of the game. The feature
was a catch by Essich and a stop by
Richardson.
Wesleyan.10000002- 3-5--3
Knox..... 0 0 01 0 000 1--5 4
Spaid went back in the box Monday
and trimmed the Millikins to the tune
of i to 1. But for Moellers pads and
steal in the first the heavy boy would
have shut them out. His support was
not of the best, five errors being made
in the infield. Wesleyan scored on
Denton's drive and steal and Mr. Spaid's
two bagger in the first and in the fifth
annexed three on Crewes hit, Straight's
bunt and Doolittle's fielder choice aided
by three wild throws and two pitiful
cushions. D. Spaid made a pretty one
handed stop that will furnish him mer-riment
for the summer. The game was
a dopy affair and played in a drizzling
rain. Moeller, Millikin's captain failed
to connect safely and struck out twice
with men on bases.
Wesleyan.1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 - 4-3-5
Milliken's.O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-3-5
Spaid and Gardner, Moeller and Guerin.
Literary Society for Law School.
Working quietly and unbeknown to
the rest of the institution, a number of
the students in the law department have
organized and are successfully carrying
on a literary society. Realization of the
need of something of this sort is not a
recent development; societies have been
organized before. The permanent orga-nization
of such a society, however, is a
new condition of affairs.
Knowledge gained from the wreck of
these former organizations has caused
the boys to thoroughly test the possibility
of the existence of such a society, by
"getting busy" right now, in the spring
of the year, when as a general thing
students are prone to direct their interest
and enthusiasm in other directions.
Judging from the character of the pro-grams
and the enthusiasm shown, the
test has proven satisfactory.
The object of the society is, as he
preamble to the constitution states,
"improvement in the art of all forms of
public-speaking, and the practice of par-liamentary
laws."
We hope that the plans which the
boys have for next year may be fully
developed, so that the society may be-come
one of the permanent features of
the school, thereby giving the law stu-dents
a better chance to develop their
abilities in this line.
The present officers of the society are
Mr. Eaton, president, Mr. Simpson,y ice
president, Mr. Yoder, secretary.
The law ex's were over Friday.
111